STAFF SENIORITY. A. A seniority list shall be prepared by the Board and verified by the Association. Seniority is defined as length of continuous service within the Forest Park School District subject to restrictions included in this Collective Agreement. Teachers shall accrue seniority for the portion of the day or year for which they are employed. It is the individual employee's responsibility to notify the Superintendent of any changes or anticipated changes in certification, in endorsements and in majors and minors. Such notice must be given prior to May 1 if to be used in making assignment from current seniority list, and appropriate documentation provided as soon as available. When two (2) or more employees have the same years of service they will be ranked in order of their respective dates of hire. When two (2) or more employees have the same years of service and the same date of hire, they will be ranked in order of their respective Board approval dates. When two (2) or more employees have the same years of service, the same date of hire and the same Board approval date, the individuals so affected will participate in a drawing to determine placement on the seniority list. The Association and teachers so affected will be notified in writing of the date, place and time of the drawing. The drawing shall be conducted openly and at a time and place that will reasonably allow affected teachers and Association representative to be in attendance.
B. The seniority list including seniority date, years of service, type of certification, majors, minors and leave published by the end of the first semester. A copy of the seniority list and subsequent revisions and updates shall be forwarded to the Association. When the seniority list is published, it shall also list the date of hire and the years of service.
C. Teachers transferring to supervisory or executive positions shall have their seniority frozen at the total number of years service in the bargaining unit. Upon returning to teacher status the member would be reinstated with prior earned seniority. However, it is expressly understood by both parties that a supervisor shall not replace a presently employed teacher in the system in order to return to teaching status.
D. All seniority is lost when employment is severed by resignation, retirement, discharge for cause or transfers out of said bargaining unit position, other than in C above. In cases of layoff, teachers so affected retain all seniority accumulated as of the ef...
STAFF SENIORITY. 11.1 Seniority shall date from a teacher’s first day worked at SACE. Seniority shall be defined as the total years of service as an employee to the School District in a teaching capacity commencing from the first day worked as a certified teacher in the SACE program, excluding all substitute teaching work whether day to day or permanent. In the event more than one regular contractual teacher has the same first day worked, the School District shall conduct a drawing within ten (10) days after notification by the Human Resources to determine the priority on the seniority list. A representative of the Union shall be present at the drawing.
11.2 In case that future staff reduction is necessary, staff will be given reasonable notification in writing.
11.3 In the event the district’s Alternative Education Program cancels any class, it shall give the teacher no less than forty-eight (48) hours verbal notification of such cancelation, confirmed in writing.
